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The Perry Center at 20
The Perry Center celebrates its twentieth anniversary: 20 years of empowering security and defense professionals in the Americas. For two decades, the Perry Center has educated policymakers, practitioners, and academics from throughout the Americas in the security and defense sectors...

The Perry Center Recognizes Departing Staff Member with Award
On January 9, the Perry Center bid farewell to staff member, Patricia Kehoe, and honored her with the Defense Security Cooperation Agency’s World of Excellence Award for exceptional support to the Center and its mission.Ms. Kehoe, a 2012 graduate of the Georgetown School of Foreign Service...

The White House Press Release on Mali
The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release March 22, 2012 Statement by the Press Secretary on MaliThe United States strongly condemns the violence initiated by elements of the armed forces of Mali. We call for the immediate restoration of constitutional...
Third Time’s A Charm – PTSS Faculty Releases 3rd Podcast
The Marshall Center PTSS team is pleased to announce the latest recording and release in its PTSS podcast series dealing with current terrorism and counterterrorism (CT) issues and emerging topics. This third podcast in the series specifically discusses recent left- and right-wing activity...

Transnational Security Cooperation Course Concludes with 29 New Alumni
Twenty-nine senior executives from 27 locations completed the Transnational Security Cooperation (TSC) course December 13 at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in Honolulu. They included military and civilian leaders from Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Canada,...
U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica Visits the Perry Center
On Monday, March 20, 2017, the Honorable Stafford Fitzgerald Haney, the United States Ambassador to Costa Rica, visited the Perry Center. In a meeting with Perry Center leadership and faculty, Ambassador Haney gave updates on the current security environment in Costa Rica, then participated in...

U.S. AND AUSTRALIA HOST PACIFIC ISLAND MARITIME LAW WORKSHOP
Legal Officials from 21 Central and Western Pacific States DiscussedRegional Maritime Law Issues in Sydney, Australia. The Defense Institute of International Legal Studies (DIILS) and Australia's Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law (APCML) hosted a five-day legal workshop,...

US AND CAMBODIAN MILITARY LEGAL PERSONNEL MEET TO DISCUSS FUTURE COLLABORATION
US and Cambodian military personnel meet to discuss security cooperation. US and Cambodian military legal personnel meet to discuss future collaboration.
US State Department releases WPS Implementation Plan
The United States State Department unveiled their official Women, Peace, and Security Plan. Click here to download the PDF version

US, BRAZIL EXCHANGE VIEWS ON MILITARY APPELLATE PRACTICE
Collegial exchange of ideas. DIILS, in cooperation with the US Army Office of the Judge Advocate General, hosted a visit in September 2012 by the Brazilian Superior Military Tribunal in Washington DC. Led by Minister Maria Elizabeth Guimaraes Teixeira Rocha, the first female...
WJPC Hosts Commander of the Brazilian Air Force
On Wednesday, 29 March, 2017 General Nivaldo Luiz Rossato, Commander of the Brazilian Air Force, accompanied by Major General Jefson Borjes, Brazilian Defense and Air Attaché, and Major General Barbacovi, Incoming Brazilian Defense and Air Attaché, visited the Perry Center. General Rossato met...